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Mysteries of vernacular: Gorgeous.
通用俗语的谜团：Gorgeous。
Beautiful or very attractive.
gorgeous表示美丽或者极具吸引力。
The source of the word gorgeous can be found in the Latin word, gurges,
gorgeous一词的来源可以追溯到拉丁文“gurges”，
used by the Romans to describe a whirling, swirling whirlpool.
罗马人曾用它来描述旋转的漩涡。
Thanks to the aquatic phenomenon's cylindrical shape and gurgling form, gurges also came to mean throat.
由于水象中的圆柱形状和流水潺潺的样子，gurges也有喉咙的意思。
By the time gurges reached England in the 14th century, it had been altered to gorge.
gurges在14世纪传播到英格兰的时候，它被改写成gorge。
This, to the English, seemed like an appropriate way to describe a steep and rocky ravine,
在英语中，这个词似乎是一种用来描述陡峭的岩石峡谷的合适的方式，
a metaphorical extension of the words referenced to the throat.
这是一个用来指咽喉要道的隐喻衍生词。
The French, however, transformed gorge into gorgias
而后法国人将gorge改成了gorgias，
and used it to describe one of the most fashionable trends of the Middle Ages, also known as a wimple.
用它来形容中世纪最流行的趋势之一，也被称为wimple（头巾）。
This popular article of clothing revealed only the madame's visage,
这种流行的配件只露出女子的面容，
covering her shoulders, head, and, of course, her throat.
而遮盖了她的肩膀、头，当然，还有她的喉咙。
A stylish and intricate gorgias was so telling of class and affluence that the word soon came to mean fond of dress and elegant.
一件时尚的、精致的头巾，相当程度上能反映阶级及富裕程度，于是这个词很快被用来代表对优雅时尚的喜爱。
This newly fashioned adjective voyaged into Middle English as gorgayse, where it was fully anglicized as gorgeous.
这个新的流行开来的形容词，以gorgayse的形式辗转来到了中世纪的英语世界中，在那里，它以gorgeous之姿被充分地强调。
Since then, it has been linked to all things of exceptionally graceful allure.
自此，它就被人们用来形容所有绝丽华美的迷人物件了。
